Detention officer injured when gun accidentally discharges

By Michelle Casady :
March 12, 2013

A Bexar County detention officer was taken to the hospital Tuesday, after he was injured when his gun accidentally discharged inside the facility's locker room, authorities said.

Paul Berry, spokesman for the Bexar County Sheriff's Office, said it was just after 3 p.m. when the officer, who has been with the department for five years, was re-holstering his gun and it somehow discharged, injuring him just above the knee.

Berry said it wasn't yet clear if the officer was hit with a bullet, a fragment of the bullet or a ricochet of some sort, but that his injury was minor and he was taken to University Hospital for treatment.